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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128065 | CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, CODING APPARATUS, AND DECODING APPARATUS A coding method according to an implementation of the present invention includes: transforming an input signal using a first transform coefficient (S110); transforming, using a second transform coefficient, a first partial signal that is a part of the first trans... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128066 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE A coding method comprises: transforming an input signal; quantizing a transformed output signal; and entropy coding quantized coefficients, wherein the transforming includes: generating a first transformed output signal by performing a first transform on the input signa... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128064 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method enabling encoding efficiency to be improved with VLC format encoding. A VLC table switching unit selects a k=0 table in accordance with a quantization parameter lower th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106631 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTEGER TRANSFORM The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using a multi-dimensional integer transform. The video encoding method of the present disclosure includes: decomposing subblocks in units of a rectangular block and successively encoding re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106630 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM A variable-length encoder that feeds a Coded Block Pattern (CBP) as an input symbol to variable-length code output part. Coded symbol memory supplies CBPs in neighboring blocks as coding map table reference information to coding map table provider. Coding map table prov... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082214 | Delay Aware Rate Control In The Context Of Hierarchical P Picture Coding The present invention provides bit rate control techniques for a hybrid block based motion compensated predictive video encoder (e.g., H.264, as well as other video coding algorithms and standards). The techniques aim to reduce the picture-to-picture bit rate fluctuatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082215 | Simplified Binary Arithmetic Coding Engine A method of entropy coding in a video encoder is provided that includes assigning a first bin to a first single-probability bin encoder based on a probability state of the first bin, wherein the first single-probability bin encoder performs binary arithmetic coding base... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069895 | High Quality Video Encoder A computerized method for encoding and decoding video comprising: dividing a video frame into macro-blocks; Re-size the video frame into a lower resolution (“resized frame”). Divide the resized video frame into macro-blocks | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069897 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO-SIGNAL PROCESSING, TRANSMITTER, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A motion analysis is applied to a signal to identify high-motion regions and low-motion regions. An analysis of low-level characteristics of the signal, such as a skin tone or contrast analysis, is used to generate a map of regions with low-level characteristics. The ma... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069899 | ENTROPY ENCODING AND DECODING USING DIRECT LEVEL AND RUN-LENGTH/LEVEL CONTEXT-ADAPTIVE ARITHMETIC CODING/DECODING MODES An encoder performs context-adaptive arithmetic encoding of transform coefficient data. For example, an encoder switches between coding of direct levels of quantized transform coefficient data and run-level coding of run lengths and levels of quantized transform coeffic... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069898 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TIME-FREQUENCY RESOLUTION IN DIGITAL DATA CODING Embodiments are described for a system and method for implementing an adaptive time-frequency resolution in audio and video coding systems. A method of adaptively transforming the time-frequency resolution for a defined spectrum comprises dividing the spectrum of the in... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069896 | EFFICIENT CODING COMPLEXITY ESTIMATION FOR VIDEO TRANSCODING SYSTEMS Systems and methods of transcoding video bitstreams that employ highly efficient look-ahead approaches to video transcoding. The systems and methods perform video transcoding in the pixel domain to make successive adjustments to estimates of the coding complexity of vid... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069900 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR ENCODING A SIGNAL INTO MACROBLOCKS A quantizer and dequantizer for use in a video coding system that applies non linear, piece-wise linear scaling functions to video information signals based on a value of a variable quantization parameter. The quantizer and dequantizer apply different non linear, piece-... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051421 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED QUANTIZATION ROUNDING OFFSET ADJUSTMENT FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING There are provided methods and apparatus for improved quantization rounding offset adjustment for video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding an input coding unit by determining a residual for the input coding unit corresponding to a ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044989 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING BLOCK ARTIFACTS Techniques are described that can be used to identify blocking artifacts in both vertical and horizontal directions. For blocking artifacts in a vertical direction, a horizontal gradient is determined for a pixel. Gradient smoothing is performed for pixels in the row of... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044990 | Data Compression For Video The present invention provides a technique for performing one or more aspects of video coding such as quantization, intra prediction coding or inter prediction coding in dependence on a perceptual model taking into account human sensitivity to data in the video signal. ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044988 | FAST ALGORITHM ADAPTIVE INTERPOLATION FILTER (AIF) An apparatus and method are taught for estimating an optimized sub-pixel interpolation filter using iterative and non-iterative estimations as needed for sub-pixel motion compensation and motion estimation in a video codec for improving coding efficiency. Motion vector ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A PREDICTION MODE, AND IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SAME The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for selecting an intra prediction mode and a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using same. The encoding apparatus selects an intra prediction mode of current block to encode from input video by a variatio... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039389 | DISTORTION WEIGHING A distortion representation is estimated for a macroblock (10) of a frame (1) by determining for each subgroup (30) of at least one pixel (20) out of multiple subgroups (30) in the macroblock (10), an activity value representati... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOSSY SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING AT THE APPLICATION LAYER A source channel encoder, source channel decoder and methods for implementing such devices are disclosed herein. The source channel encoder includes a linear transform encoder configured to generate a plurality of source components. A successive refinement quantizer is ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039386 | Limiting the Maximum Size of an Encoded Video Picture Using Sub-Picture Based Rate Control A method for encoding a picture in a video sequence is provided that includes determining the current encoded size of the picture after coding a plurality of macroblocks in the picture, determining that encoding remaining macroblocks in the picture may cause the encoded... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTIVELY COMPRESSING MOTION VECTORS IN MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE A motion vector compression apparatus includes: a down-sampling module for down-sampling an original frame to have a size of a frame in each layer; a motion vector search module for obtaining a motion vector in which an error or a cost function is minimized with respect... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039390 | PICTURE CODING METHOD AND PICTURE DECODING METHOD The picture coding method of the present invention is a picture coding method for coding a picture on a block-by-block basis, comprising: a selection step of selecting one of at least two sizes as a size of a block on which orthogonal transformation should be performed;... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033728 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES BY ADAPTIVELY USING AN INTERPOLATION FILTER The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for encoding and decoding images by adaptively using an interpolation filter in consideration of the characteristics of input images. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a prediction block-genera... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033729 | Method and System for Improving Compressed Image Chroma Information Methods, systems, and computer programs for improving compressed image chroma information. In one aspect of the invention, a resolution for a red color component of a color video image is used that is higher than the resolution for a blue color component of the color vi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027083 | VIDEO CODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS A video coding method which enables reduction in the decrease in the efficiency of coding a video and enhancement of the image quality of the resulting decoded video involves: predicting a video signal to generate a prediction signal (S100); calculating, as a pre... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027082 | Parallel Rate Control for Digital Video Encoder with Multi-Processor Architecture and Picture-Based Look-Ahead Window A method of operating a multi-processor video encoder by determining a target size corresponding to a preferred number of bits to be used when creating an encoded version of a picture in a group of sequential pictures making up a video sequence. The method includes the ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027080 | ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD USING CODED BLOCK PATTERN ESTIMATION An encoder includes a motion estimation module configured to perform motion estimation of a current frame based on at least one reference frame, a motion compensation module configured to generate a signal including a compensation image for the current frame from the at... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027081 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING RUN-LEVEL CODING A method for representing transform coefficients in compression/decompression of digital video systems in multi-purpose processors. Exemplary embodiments of the method may significantly reduce the required processor capacity compared to conventional methods.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020409 | ESTIMATING SAMPLE-DOMAIN DISTORTION IN THE TRANSFORM DOMAIN WITH ROUNDING COMPENSATION Techniques and tools are described for compensating for rounding when estimating sample-domain distortion in the transform domain. For example, a video encoder estimates pixel-domain distortion in the transform domain for a block of transform coefficients after compensa... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020408 | Video compression using multiple variable length coding methods for multiple types of transform coefficient blocks Classifying a series of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data into one of a pre-defined plurality of classes for entropy coding, and entropy coding the block. A class is defined by at least the size of the block and typically but not necessarily one ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014435 | Soft Decision and Iterative Video Coding for MPEG and H.264 A method of encoding video data using soft decision quantization makes use of iterative encoding to provide the ability to optimize encoding across different functional elements in a hybrid video encoder. Iterative encoding is used to allow quantization step size, motio... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008678 | Quantization Control for Variable Bit Depth The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which function QSN has... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002719 | VIDEO ENCODER WITH NON-SYNTAX REUSE AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH A video encoder includes a non-syntax processing engine that processes a video input signal into an intermediate signal in accordance with a first video compression standard. A syntax section transforms and quantizes the intermediate signal in accordance with a second v... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002721 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LAYER RATE CONTROL FOR A MULTI-CODEC SYSTEM A video transmitter comprising a plurality of encoders may be operable to determine, for a transport stream, a constant overall number of bits per time interval corresponding to a frame in the transport stream. For each time interval corresponding to a start and an end ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002723 | STEREO VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND STEREO VIDEO CODING METHOD A stereo video coding apparatus which codes, out of a first viewpoint video and second viewpoint video, at least a second image included in the second viewpoint video, and includes: a judgment unit and a selection unit which output one of a prediction image generated by... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002722 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGION-BASED FILTER PARAMETER SELECTION FOR DE-ARTIFACT FILTERING Methods and apparatus are provided for region-based filter parameter selection for de-artifact filtering. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for at least a region of a picture. The encoder includes a de-artifact filter for performing de-artifact ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002724 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS INCLUDING THE ENCODING DEVICE An encoding device and method of using a bit rate control method which accurately predicts a target bit amount, provides excellent quality, and is applicable to a real-time environment through a simple mechanism, and a multimedia apparatus including the encoding device.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002720 | VIDEO ENCODER WITH VIDEO DECODER REUSE AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH A video encoder includes a forward path section that processes a video input signal in accordance with a video compression standard, based on a plurality of reference pictures, to generate a processed video signal and a plurality of transformed quantized residual pixel ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317758 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE AND VIDEO An image processing apparatus including: an encoding section encoding image data including images from a plurality of viewpoints; an amount-of-code calculation section determining a viewpoint and a picture type of the image data encoded by the encoding section, and calc... | 12/29/2011 |
